ABOUT THE TEAM

At Zillow, the top real estate website in the U.S., we’re on a mission to give people the power to unlock life’s next chapter. We’re creating innovative, connected, and equitable solutions to help people move from dreaming to transacting.
The Team: The Transactions Data Warehouse team at Zillow is a member of the Analytics Data Engineering organization and works closely with product, analytics, and AI teams. Your work will have a direct impact on the design and implementation of data engineering solutions that improve the efforts of our AI, Marketing, and Data Science teams, thus enhancing Zillow’s offerings for customers. This dedicated team is vital in supporting Zillow’s Premier Agent, Agent Software and Advertising, and Zillow Home Loans business areas.
We are seeking a highly skilled and transformative Principal Software Development Engineering (Big Data) to join our team. As a principal engineer, you will be responsible for working with data platform, product engineering, Data Science, AI, and other partner teams to influence data strategy, architecture, and project roadmaps to increase the output of our data engineering team. You will define and implement architectural best practices across the team and organization, ensuring that there is a consistent data strategy across the our team and broader organization.

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Zillow is reimagining real estate to make home a reality for more and more people.
As the most-visited real estate website in the United States, Zillow® and its affiliates help movers find and win their home through digital solutions, first class partners, and easier buying, selling, financing and renting experiences. Millions of people visit Zillow Group sites every month to start their home search, and now they can rely on Zillow to help make it easier to move. The work we do helps people get home and no matter what job you’re in, you will play a critical role in making home a reality for more and more people.
Our efforts to streamline the real estate transaction are supported by a deep-rooted culture of innovation, our passion to redefine the employee experience, a fundamental commitment to Equity and Belonging, and world-class benefits. These benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, and disability coverages as well as parental leave, family benefits, retirement contributions, and paid time off. We’re also setting the standard for work experiences of the future, where our employees are supported in doing their best work and living a flexible, well-balanced life. But don’t just take our word for it. Read recent reviews on Glassdoor and recent recognition from multiple organizations, including: the 100 Best Companies to Work For, Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Award, Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index, Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Corporate Equity Index, and TIME 100 Most Influential Companies list.
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The Transactions Data Warehouse team is looking for a Principal SDE to lead data initiatives needs across the Premier Agent, Zillow Home Loans, and Agent Software and Advertising domains. In this role, you will set architectural standards for data products across our team and broader Data Engineering organization. You will also own the effort to build out a connected Data Warehouse - working with senior engineers and leaders to ensure that data products are designed to not only solve for our stakeholders’ immediate business needs but fit together to represent a view of Zillow’s customers as they interact with products across business lines
The ideal candidate is someone with a background in Data Engineering who has a consistent track record of building and operating high-impact data solutions. They are someone who can translate customer needs into strong data engineering solutions. They are also able to drive clarity for others in the face of ambiguous problems and are able to set the correct levels of priorities and areas of investment for the team.